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Weinberg, Mark L. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1987
Business incubators can help fledgling firms get off the ground by providing business services and rental space, at below-market costs, for a business's first few years. The payoff for the community is more jobs. Concentrated until recently in urban areas, incubators are now succeeding in rural areas too. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Support, Entrepreneurship, Financial Support
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1985
Federal appropriations totalling over $162 million during fiscal year 1984 enabled the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to attack the region's most critical needs. Area development appropriations ($43 million) were used to create almost 10,550 new jobs and retain nearly 4,100 jobs, give special assistance to Appalachia's neediest 80 counties…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Census Figures, Community Development, Demography
Download full textDepartment of Agriculture, Washington, DC. – 1970
Rural development progress relative to State-U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) committees is presented via exemplary citation in this 1970 report. Summaries are given for: (1) Status of State-USDA Organization for Rural Development, (2) Functional Relationships of USDA Committees on Rural Development, (3) Activities and Projects Underway, (4)…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Agriculture, Annual Reports
Russell, Jack, Ed.; And Others – 1987
The Appalachian Regional Commission used its $120 million appropriation for fiscal year 1986 to create and retain jobs under the jobs and private investment program, provide basic public facilities to the worst-off Appalachian counties under the distressed counties program, and to work toward closing the gaps in the Appalachian Development Highway…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Community Development, Dropout Prevention, Economic Development
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1986
In the third year of its finish-up program, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) used its area development appropriation of $44 million to target three broad areas: (1) creating and retaining jobs in the region; (2) providing basic public facilities in the worst-off Appalachian counties; and (3) improving health care throughout the region.…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Community Development, Dropout Prevention, Economic Development
Russell, Jack, Ed.; And Others – 1988
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) used its $105 million appropriation for fiscal year 1987 to support three major program areas in the 13 state region: (1) creating and retaining regional jobs; (2) assisting in construction of basic facilities, particularly water and sewer systems, in the region's 90 poorest counties; and (3) working…
Descriptors: Community Development, Dropout Prevention, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Van Rensburg, Patrick – 1974
Opened in 1963, the Swaneng Hill School in Serowe, Botswana, was an experiment for its untrained founders whose objectives were to reduce the exclusiveness of secondary education, equip students with skills and knowledge needed for development, make the school a focal point for community development, and instill a sense of social justice in the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Course Descriptions
